Combined waybill accounting, and receipt appliance



F. P. SMALI..

COMBINED WAYBILI, ACCOUNTINGAND RECEIPT APPLIANCE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1.1919.

Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

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COMBINED WAYBILL, ACCOUNTING, AND RECEIPT APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented ren. io, ieee.

Application filed July l, 1919. Serial No. 308,050.

f and exact description.

This invention relates to shipping appliances particularly applicable toconsignments by express, although I do not wish to be unnecessarilylimited or restricted to such use.

Among the objects of the invention is to 4provide a shipping appliancethat constitutes an enlargement or carrying forward of the inventiveidea covered by Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,239,977,issued to me on the 11th day of September, 1917, but having a numberofnovel features of construction and utility over the device previouslypatented.

Specifically stated the objects of the invention include a device forthe more complete and comprehensive means for not only labeling a parcelor package, but providing a more complete record-of the transaction fromthe time of receipt by the shipping clerk to the time of the deliveryfrom the express wagon to the consignee, during which time every personor arty handling the package is supplied with) a voucher or couponidentifying the transaction, and as in the previous invention',thewaybill is carried from the shipping oiice to the oiiice of receiptupon the package itself. Again, sent with the waybill and as an integralbut detachable part of the device is a Ikseparate sheet identified bythe title delivery sheet providing a means for securing the signature ofthe consignee at the time of delivery by the delivery oiice orexpressman.

With the foregoing'and other objects in view the invention consistsinthe arrangement and combination of partshereinafter described andclaimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact detailsof construction vdisclosed or suggested herein,

like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views,and in which-- Figure 1 is a plan view of the face of the appliance laidout Hat; and

Fig.. 2 is a similar view of the opposite face of the same, theappliance as shown in Fig. 2 assuming the position resulting from theturnin of the sheet from the position of Fig. 1 y lifting one endthereof and swinging it through 180 degrees around the opposite end as apivot.

My improved deviceJ inthe form illustrated is made from'a rectangularsheet of paper, or its equivalent, designed in a peculiar manner Iandprinted on opposite sides and otherwise arranged to carry descriptivematter serving to identify the parcel by description of the contents,value, the name and place of the shipper, the name and place of theconsignee and other information relating to the transaction, a fullhistory of the transaction bein written with the least amount of time aneffort, and the device being so formed and folded that various portionsthereof may be removed by a single act of detachment from the remaining'portions. The ortions removed from the others are calcu ated to beretained at the shipping end of the line, while all the remainingportions are carried on the package and are intended to constitutecomplete directions for the receiving agent, the delivery man, and theconsignee. The sheet of paper in original flat form is substantiallytwice as lona as it is wide and is foldable along a wecrened line 10midway between its ends. The first fold, therefore, is made as thoughthe right end of Fig. 2 be lifted and swung through 180 degrees aroundthe line 10 as a hinge. What then may be termed the upper portionY ofthe device after the first fold is completed, may be described as beingfolded under the portions A, E and E', and toward the operator around alongitudinal hinge line 11. This line, however, While parallel to thelateraledges of the sheet is nearer to one edge than the other wherebyat the completion of the second fold around the line 11 there isobserved at the lower edge an overlap of about one inch at 12. A specialpress has been built for the printing and folding of these sheets asthus far described, and when so foldedl there are `throughout the mainportion'of the device four plies, while the overlapping portion 12 hasbut two plies.

In the making of the first fold around the line 10 a weakened line 13comesrinto direct registry with -a similar weakened line 14, and whenthe second fold is made the upper ends of the weakened lines 13 and 14coinciding substantially with each other are Ibrought down to registerwith the lower portions of the same lines except that the extremeoriginal upper ends of said weakened lines 13 and 14: after` the secondfold are made to coincide with the points 15 at the inner corners of theoverlap.

The formation of the sheet as above 'described, folding it aroundweakened ybending lines constitutes the sheet into a series of separablepanels or coupons designated on the drawings as A and B, as oneinsepara'ble coupon sheet, C, D, E, E', F, F, Gr and H. The parts of thecoupons A and B are permanently connected, the bending line 11 betweenthem and constituting an extension of the weakened line 11 beingunweakened. When the device is folded and ready t0 be written upon bythe shipping agent it is held lia-t in folded form and with the panelsA, E E constituting the upper surface upon which the `shipping agentwrites the information desired as indicated at the lower left handquarter of Fig. 1. The information carrying slips or coupons A, C, D, Eand F 'are all similarly numbered as indicated at 16 so that any information slip that might become dama-ged or lost can be reproduced fromany other of the s ame series as indicated by the number.

As shown in the drawing coupon A constitutes the shippers receipt inconnection with the att-ached slip B of information printed thereongiving the express terms and conditions. The face of coupon A is printedat its upper right hand corner to indicate its nature and purpose andsuch information as will assist the agent in fil1- ing in theinformation required such 4as. the name of the office of destination,the name and address of the consignee, the description of the articleand the name of the shipper. The back of coupon A is spotted with carbonat 17 whereby the rst carbon impression ofV the same description isroduced upon the face of coupon C. oreover coupon C is carbon spotted at18 on its back-and causes thereby a reproduction of the principaldescription on the face of the coupon D. Thus three records Aareproduced at the same operation.

Likewise the agent in making the origina-l inscription upon the face ofcoupon E, which is the waybill, causes simultaneously a duplication ofthe same record by' virtue of the carbon spot 19, carried by the couponE,

upon the face of coupon F. The coupon F which is the delivery sheetcarries a small carbon spot at 20 for the second duplication Yedto him.Coupon C is the office copy and hence isfiled in the office, and couponD is the abstract. The right hand portion of the device is appliedbodily to the package, the

four portions thereof being directly applicable to the package by meansof paste or the like applied to the overlapping parts E and F of couponsE and F and the back faces of coupons Gr and H. To make possible thissimultaneous connection of all of these parts tothe package I provide aplurality of large holes 21 in the member F and 22 in the member H. Theholes 21 afford communication directly with the back of extension E',while the holes 22 provide similar Communication with the back of couponG. The thus exposed portions of the coupons to be pasted may be suppliedwith mucilage spotted thereon to be moistened by anyagent or driver, orwet paste may be applied to the back of the said right hand portion ofthe device as a whole at the time it is to be applied to the package.The operator holding .this portion of the device in' one hand andapplying paste or moisture to the perforatedside or face thereof withthe other hand easily and quickly effects the desired result and thenthe device is simply applied to the package in fiat form, but consistingin such form of four plies, namely, E, F, G and H. Thus the device iscarried by the packa e from the shipping office to the office ofdestination. The agent 'at the oice of destination following thedirections printed plainly upon the face thereof detaches the coupons Eand F from the other portions which remain `fixed to the package.

This detachment is effected by first running his finger or a toolbeneath either free side edge of the parts E and F ripping the sameloose along the line 11. He then folds the partially severed couponsforward toward him and downward around the yline 23 and severs the samefrom the parts E and F along such line. Coupon E,the waybill, isretained by the receiving agent, while ooupon F, the delivery sheet, iscarried by the delivery man and serves fr his complete instructions andalso to receive the consignees signature and the indication ofthe timeof delivery. This sheet obviously must be returned by the driver ordelivery man with any charges to be collected to the office from whichhe received the package for delivery. Whilej illustrate my improvementas adapted for a C, O. l). shipment it is to be understood that it islikewise capable of use for prepaid or other speciesof shipments.

l claim:

1. The herein described combined waybill, accounting and receiptappliance comprising a series of similarly numbered andidentiedsuperimposed coupons connected detachably to one another by means ofweakened lines folded so that certain portions of the weakened linesregister with one another whereby one folded portion is directlydetachable from the other folded portion as a Whole, the faces of thetwo separable portions being adapted to carry identification infomationof an individual package to be shipped by the use of the appliance, saidcoupons being so ruled and. printed as to constitute respectively ashippers receipt, any oce copy thereoffand an abstract advice, the otherlnain separable portion being formed with paste receiving holes to makeit attachable as a whole to the package to be carried therewith andcomprising a plurality of coupons so ruled and printed as to constituterespectively a waybill, a delivery sheet, and a waybill label, the lastof which remains iii-ml attac-hed to the package.

2. he herein described shipping appliance for express packages or thelike comprising a plurality of superimposed labels, there beingyprovided weakened folding lines whereby two of the labels are separablesimultaneously from the remainder and which labels are so ruled andotherwise identified to constitute first a' waybill and secondly adelivery sheet, the waybill and delivery sheet portions being extended nalong one side to overlap the remaining portions, and meansto attachfirmly and perma nently said remaining portions and the overlappingportions to the package whereby the waybill and delivery sheet whendetached from the remaining portions may likewise be detached from theiixedoverlapping portions thereof.

3. The herein described shipping appliance comprising a plurality ofsuperimposed coupons, the same comprising two coupons, extensionattachment stubs formed integral with said two-coupons respectively andbeing separabley therefrom along predetermined lines, the `under stub,being provided with perforations whereby the application of paste to thebottom surface there.

of will cause they application thereof to the under surface of the upperstub, said stubs quent 4separate use.

FREDERICK PERCIVAL SMALL.

